07 December 2009 ~ 3 Comments

The new search engine: the impact of personalized search results

Last Friday Google implemented a change in the way its site recommendations function. Now, unless you opt-out, Google will be recording your web browsing and in turn modifying the results returned in your future searches. Search Engine Land reports on the implications:

Until now, search engines have largely delivered the same results to everyone. [...]

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15 November 2009 ~ 1 Comment

News Corp. to block Google? Probably not.

There has been a lot of discussion in the blogosphere of Rupert Murdoch’s threat of blocking Google and implementing paywalls. In a great article over at Search Engine Land, Danny Sullivan delves into the intricacies of Google News Search and alternatives that may actually play out with insight from an interview with Josh Cohen [...]

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